I AM A CHAMPION!!!

Well, that’s what I like to tell myself. Started playing foosball again this week and, ZOMG, my skill level has gone like +5 since last semester. I actually beat Pookish, the undeniable champ, by a point! Granted, he was playing one-handed, with his right hand (he’s a lefty), but I still beat him! Woot woot!

Then, we played teams. Me and Poon versus Pookish and T-biz. Then, to keep it fair, T-biz and I switched sides. Pookish and I DOMINATED! Even after Poon and T-biz switched so that Poon could be on offense (his preferred position), Pook and I still dominated. One day we will shut them out and make them do the Naked Lap of Shame around the school. Tee hee (and totally j/k).

If you are wondering how we have so much time to play all this foosball, the TTO generously allows us an hour lunch in addition to inexplicably long breaks between classes. If you are wondering why I don’t use this time to study, I totally do! But you can only study poop and coughing for so long before losing your mind. Solution? FOOSBALL!

Glossary

• Poon: Alan Poon
• Pookish: Allen Putzig
• T-biz: Tara B
• shut out: don’t let them make a goal

LA ICU

Ok, since I REALLY don’t feel like reading 20 pages on colic and why horses do it, I’ve decided to post on my large animal ICU week. I started 20 Dec at 9AM and finished 27 Dec 9AM. The first few days were tough since we had to get up in the middle of the night to do colic checks and give meds, but as horses got better and went home the workload got easier. We were very lucky since no emergency colic cases came in (in previous years. they’ve had 2 to 4 cases come in over-night on CHRISTMAS!).

Not pictured: Demon shower

The cottage was way more comfy than I thought it would be. Two twin rooms and a bathroom upstairs, two single rooms and a bathroom downstairs, and a kitchen/lounge. Only thing was, the upstairs shower was possessed by some evil demon, so we all had to share the downstairs one.

I can has some foodz, pleaz?

The on-duty resident would bring his dog with him when the hospital was closed for Christmas, and he’d follow us around all day. Poor thing has really short legs, so he’d always be the last one to arrive. Someone said he was as old as dinosaurs, lol.

For Christmas, we joined up with the girls doing small animal ICU for a very scrumptious dinner. Kit was awesome and made some crumble and key lime pie for dessert!

Even the guys came along for some fun (and food). They weren’t too keen on having their pics taken, though.

It was very cold during our week, so we spent a lot of time hiding in here ‘learning’ about horsey things. But really, we just ate chocolates and goofed around. And wrote in our charts, since that is very important!

We had some good cases in and got to see several endoscopies, stomach tubings, how to work up an ophtho case, and how to manage ortho cases. I even learned how to place an IV!

The new build is coming along nicely. Hopefully it will open soon so that we can enjoy it before graduation!

Winter Holiday

Guess I’ll start with the most recent events. I was able to go to Miami for a few days over the winter holiday. Travel was much better this year since I did not go through the North East. Why I ever thought that was a good idea is beyond me (I’ll post about this later). Even though we were delayed a bit due to strikes at CDG, I was still able to make it home in time for dinner. : D

This trip was jam-packed with people and events. The day after I arrived, there was a HUGE family reunion at my uncle’s house. Thank goodness not everyone was able to come, cuz we would not have fit!

  We barely fit in the pic!

It was nice seeing (most) of my family again. I even met up with Franchie and she invited me to a New Year’s Eve party. It’s the first proper NYE party that I’ve been too! I didn’t know anybody there other than her and her little brother, but I still had a good time.

A few days before I had to leave, we got to do our Secret Santa exchange. The presents this year were amazing! JP won; he gave Christian a ‘chick’ to keep him from getting too distracted by going out to get chicks.

Naturally, no one wanted to take care of the chick, so I ended up keeping it for a few days. (S)he was so cute and even bonded with me! Eventually we gave it back to JP so that he could take it back to the farm.

Nap time!

My dad broke out the nommy Puerto Rican food a few times while I was home. They’d been keeping it in the freezer for me all month since they knew how much I liked it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I even got to have some proper paella!

Heck yeah! Seafood!

Of course, it wasn’t all fun and games. I had to squeeze in a week of EMS, so I spent a few days working with Dr Mendez. It was fun, and I got to practice doing physicals and giving IV injections.

The flights home were fairly uneventful, though I did get delayed at CDG (again) for a few hours. It wasn’t their fault this time, though; EDI opened late on account of some snow and all flights in and out were delayed a few hours. For some reason, Air France felt bad about it and gave me 1000 miles! Woot!

Miami from above

 

Some place in Scotland from above

Revival

So, it’s been ages and ages and ages since I last posted on my blog, but I finally figured out how to use this fun blog toy on my computer which should encourage me to post more often. Lots has happened in the past few years, so I will try to fill in the gaps between postings of my current activities.

I’m now halfway through fourth year, and we are learning about equines, exotics, and public health this semester. Last semester we did farm animals and a bit of epidemiology. Our farm marks come out Thursday and I can’t wait! We won’t get our epidemiology marks for some time, but I do not have high hopes for that test. Oh well.

Me, Abuelita, and the girls